Platinum Metallicum - Generalities symptoms - Reversed & reworded Kent repertory

GENERALITIES

Fatigue

Lethargic, tired

Sleep and dreams

Dreams

amorous

anxious

battles

confused

of dead people

difficulties

disconnected

fights

fire

frightful

pleasant

quarrels

not remembered

unsuccessful; efforts to do various things

unsuccessful; to reach a distant place

vexatious, stressful

vivid

Falling asleep; while reading

While perspiring (see perspiration during sleep)

Position

arms over head

arms under head

on back

limbs pulled up

limbs spread apart

limbs stretched out

inclined to have limbs uncovered

Prolonged sleep

Restless

Short

Sleepiness, tiredness

morning

late morning

evening

after dinner

in house

while reading

Sleeplessness, insomnia

night

from before midnight

night; after midnight; 3 a.m.

night; from thoughts; same idea always repeated

Sleep-walking

Waking

3 a.m.

midnight

early

frequent

late

Yawning

morning

on rising

afternoon

after eating

without sleepiness

spasmodic

intense

Convulsions

Convulsions

morning

after anger

children

rapid muscle spasm

with consciousness

without consciousness

convulsive movements

epileptic

from excitement

from fright

with haemorrhage

hysterical

internal

in women

during period

in women; from childbirth

after masturbation

with paralysis

connected with haemorrhage

from sexual excitement

with tetanus rigidity

continuous contraction

Jerking; as in convulsions

Perspiration

During headache

During sleep

When waking from sleep

Generalities

Morning

Afternoon; 4 to 10 p.m.

Evening

before going to sleep

Night

before midnight

after midnight

Desire for open air

Open air

Anaemia; as from iron deficiency - greenish yellow skin

General physical anxiety

Walking up stairs or hill

Sensation of ball internally (compare knotted sensation)

Change of position

Blood vessels

congestion of blood

excited, rapid blood flow; after emotions

varicose veins; network in skin

Catalepsy (dazed, allows others to position limbs)

during period

from sexual excitement

Constriction

externally

internally

of orifices

sensation of a band

Contradictory and alternating states

Physical exertion

Eating and food

after eating

symptoms while fasting

coffee

from hunger

Flabby feeling

Fluid build up; external

Formication (like insects crawling around); external parts

internally

bones

glands

Full feeling; internally

Haemorrhage

Heaviness

externally

internally

Inflammation; thin, watery membranes

Insensitive to pain (see irritability); inner parts

parts affected by disease or injury

Jar, stepping

Jerking

internally

muscles

Straining of muscles and tendons, from lifting

Lying down

lying down

after lying down

lying on back

lying in bed

lying on side

on left side

on painful side

on painless side

Movement

at beginning of movement

movement of affected part

continued movement

Mucous secretions increased

Narcotics

Numbness

externally

internally

in single parts

in spots

of suffering parts

sensation of numbness in glands

Obesity

Pain

appear gradually; and disappear gradually

benumbing

boring

burning externally

internally

as from being burnt

glands

constricting; externally

constricting; internally

constricting; glands

cutting; externally

cutting; internally

digging up (burrowing, rooting sensation)

glands

pulling

gnawing, biting; externally

gnawing, biting; internally

gnawing, biting; glands

jerking; externally

jerking; internally

paralytic

pinching

internally

bones

pressing; externally

pressing; internally

pressing; inward

pressing; as from load

pressing; together

pressing; from within outward

pressing; bones

pressing; muscles

sticking, in muscles

sore, bruised

externally

parts affected with cramp-like pain

on pressure

in spots

glands

sensation of splinters

sudden, sharp; externally

sudden, sharp; internally

sudden, sharp; muscles

burning in muscles

tearing; externally

tearing; internally

tearing; muscles

cramp-like in muscles

jerking in muscles

twisting

ulcerative; externally

undulating

wandering

In women

symptoms before period

symptoms at beginning of period

symptoms during period

symptoms after period

Sensation of plug

externally

internally

Symptoms from suppression of perspiration

Pressure

Prickling

externally

internally

Pulsation

internally

Pulse

abnormal

frequent, accelerated, elevated, exalted, fast, innumerable, rapid

imperceptible

small

soft

Relaxation of muscles

While travelling

After travelling

Rising

Rubbing

Sensitive

bed feels hard

excessive physical irritability

Suppression of sexual desire

Electric-like shocks

Nervous shuddering; during stool

Symptoms during sexual intercourse

Symptoms after sexual intercourse; symptoms after sexual excesses

Symptoms not symmetrical

symptoms on one side

alternating sides

crosswise, left lower and right upper

While sitting

On first sitting down

Before sleep

During sleep

Standing

Stretching

afternoon

Swelling; swollen sensation

Tension

externally

internally

muscles

Sensation of threads

Temperature (felt and effects of temperature); hot feeling; flushes of heat

hot feeling

flushes of heat; with chilliness

hot feeling; sensation of heat

becoming cold

after becoming cold

tendency to catch cold

warmth

warm room

warm bed

warm air

becoming warm in open air

Touch

Illusions of touch

Trembling

externally

late morning

open air

from anxiety

on slight physical exertion

internally

movement

with the pains

Touching anything

Twitching

twitching, involuntary movements (chorea)

After undressing

On waking

Walking

beginning of walk

in the wind

in open air

Warmth

warm room

warm bed

warm air

becoming warm in open air

Wraps

Weakness (see lethargic, weariness)

morning

late morning

evening

in open air

after dinner

after period

movement

nervous weakness

sitting

as if from sleepiness

during stool

trembling

Weariness (see weakness)

From wind

Windy and stormy weather